{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2022-08-17","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"FORT PIERRE","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55620","engine_horsepower":135,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"915 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"MAGNI GYRO SRL","kit_model":"M24 ORION PLUS","last_action_date":"2026-10-01","maker":"Daniel Anthony Proctor","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DANIEL ANTHONY PROCTOR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0564060","mode_s_code":"52341304","mode_s_hex":"A9C2C4","model":"M24 ORION PLUS","n_number":"N728RJ","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Suches","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-11-26","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA23LA072","probable_cause":"The pilot's decision to take off from the runway midpoint with a tailwind, which resulted in impact with terrain.","registration":"N728RJ","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on November 26, 2022 at Suches, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"MIDDLEBURY","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-04-29","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"IAD98LA050","probable_cause":"the pilot's inadequate preflight when he did not secure the right wing fuel tank cap which led to fuel exhaustion.","registration":"N728RJ","state":"CT","summary":"Accident on April 29, 1998 at Middlebury, CT: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N728RJ is a Daniel Anthony Proctor M24 ORION PLUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2022. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24223826 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N728RJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182T (serial 18281396, cancelled October 27, 2010); Mcclead Charles A VARIEZE (serial 2199, cancelled October 31, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N728RJ: Accident on November 26, 2022 at Suches, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 29, 1998 at Middlebury, CT: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"24223826","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"401 ASH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01371537","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N728RJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"575322038"}